\n At least 800,000 mainly Tutsi people were beaten, hacked or shot to death in Rwanda's 1994 genocide, a 100-day killing spree carried out mostly by Hutu forces.\n<\/p>\n
\n Here is a recap:\n<\/p>\n
\n - President killed -\n<\/p>\n
\n On April 6, 1994 Rwanda's president, Juvenal Habyarimana, is killed when his aircraft is shot down over Kigali.\n<\/p>\n
\n From the Hutu majority, he is returning from peace talks in Tanzania with Tutsi rebels of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF).\n<\/p>\n
\n It is not clear who carried out the attack but the killing unleashes a killing spree by Hutu forces and militia.\n<\/p>\n
\n - Genocide starts -\n<\/p>\n
\n On April 7 soldiers of the elite presidential guard kill the moderate Hutu prime minister, Agathe Uwilingiyimana, as well as 10 Belgian paratroopers guarding her.\n<\/p>\n
\n Massacres start. Authorities distribute lists of people to be killed, mostly Tutsis but also opposition Hutus; troops and militia set up roadblocks and go house-to-house looking for targets.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Mille Collines radio station exhorts Hutus to kill Tutsi \"cockroaches\", to rape and loot.\n<\/p>\n
\n Men, women and children are killed in the streets, in their homes and even in churches and schools where they seek refuge.\n<\/p>\n
\n - UN scales down effort -\n<\/p>\n
\n From April 9 French and Belgian paratroopers arrive to evacuate their nationals.\n<\/p>\n
\n A UN peacekeeping operation, unable to stop the massacres, is on April 21 reduced from around 2,300 to 270 men.\n<\/p>\n
\n A week later Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says a \"genocide\" is underway.\n<\/p>\n
\n On June 22 France deploys Operation Turquoise, a UN-mandated force tasked with halting the killing. It has little effect.\n<\/p>\n
\n On June 30 the UN Human Rights Commission special rapporteur says the slaughter legally qualifies as \"genocide\" and appears to have been planned.\n<\/p>\n
\n - Killing stops -\n<\/p>\n
\n On July 4 the mainly Tutsi RPF soldiers finally seize the capital Kigali and the killing ends. The United Nations will later estimate that 800,000 people lost their lives.\n<\/p>\n
\n Hundreds of thousands of Hutus, fearing reprisals, flee to neighbouring Zaire, today's Democratic Republic of Congo.\n<\/p>\n
\n - Justice -\n<\/p>\n
\n In November 1994 the UN sets up the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in neighbouring Tanzania to try the main perpetrators.\n<\/p>\n
\n In 1998 it becomes the first international court to hand down a conviction for genocide, finding a former town mayor guilty of inciting the massacre of more than 2,000 Tutsis.\n<\/p>\n
\n Local community courts also find thousands of people guilty and convictions are also made internationally. Belgium, the former colonial powers, holds five trials linked to the genocide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At least 800,000 mainly Tutsi people were beaten, hacked or shot to death in Rwanda's 1994 genocide, a 100-day killing spree carried out mostly by Hutu forces. Here is a recap: - President killed - On April 6, 1994 Rwanda's president, Juvenal Habyarimana, is killed when his aircraft is shot down over Kigali. From the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[553],"tags":[],"ji_location":[],"class_list":["post-43357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-feed"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n